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Alice Dreger
Historian, sex researcher, and writer
Alice Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, an award-winning writer, and an (im)patient advocate. Dreger’s latest major work is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.
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Taking the fourth spot on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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Opinion is more compelling than fact. That's tearing society apart.
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Evolutionarily speaking, being gay is still something of an enigma
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Want to empower social change? Break bread, literally, with the so-called enemy.
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'Whose job is it to fix the bad stuff in the world?' asks Alice Dreger.
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Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
Why virtue signaling does nothing.
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Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.